09/12/2025
This morning, as I listened again to a playlist I've been unintentionally curating for years, I found myself remembering the moments music has held space when words couldn't.
The songs that carried me through labor with my youngest daughter, reminding me of our incredible strength and power.
I remember the hospice patient who asked me to play her favorite hymn, and another who shared with me about the goosebumps certain songs give us. I remember the family who gathered on both sides of the ramp, singing as the funeral director brought their loved one's body from the house.
Or all those moments in my car when the perfect song arrives, like a gentle nod from the universe that our experiences matter, that we are witnessed.
My heart remains touched by the guitar and voice that filled the neighborhood yesterday during a memorial service for a dear friend, bringing comfort and tears to those of us gathered there.
And today, as I sit with the news of an unexpected death in my family, I'm reminded again of music's profound medicine, feeling its warmest embrace as I let it move through me.
With all of that, it feels like the right time to share my collection with you. This Love That Ripples playlist was birthed over many years of witnessing and honoring both the beauty and fragility of our human experience. It offers a contemplative journey through love, healing, and life's deeper meanings, a space for reflection. I can even envision these songs carrying me through my own life's transitions.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54BHDMTDOHkCdKs0LA7EeM
Perhaps these songs will serve as medicine for those navigating personal turmoil and heartbreak and for all of us moving through these uncertain times together.
I'd love to hear if you listen, how it resonates, or what medicine songs you might add. And I hope these songs deeply touch you as they have me. 💕
